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01 April 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. Miller Christy, in his very interesting letter in your last issue (p. 91), remarks t h a t I have n o t done justice t o the bird-life on Walthamstow Reservoirs, b u t I must point o u t t h a t m y note was only intended to record t h e nestin...

Reviews

01 April 1963 Comments Reviews Aberdeen University Bird-migration Inquiry: First Interim Report (1909-12). By A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U. (Reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist, July, October, November, 1912 ; February, April and June, 1913.) THESE papers give details of t...

Notes

01 April 1963 Comments Notes W E have received a good many schedules relating to these two inquiries (see Vol. VI., pp. 296-311, and Vol. VII, pp. 4-6), but we sincerely hope that many more of our readers will send in particulars. This should now be done without delay, and if the fo...

On Incubation

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper As has previously been shown,* many birds belonging to various Orders commence incubation upon the laying of the first egg. This habit is undoubtedly of the utmost value to many species, saving the eggs from destruction by the numerous animals which devou...

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper this summer (1913) we found a good many pairs of Eiders (Somateria m. mollissima) nesting in the northern portion of a certain large fresh-water loch in the Outer Hebrides, The birds were, however, very shy at the nest, and even with a long-focus lens it ...

On the Breeding-Season and Clutch of the Steganopodes. (Cormorant, Shag, and Gannet.)

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper ONLY three members of this Order figure on the British List, and some of the facts concerning their reproductive habits are sufficiently interesting to deserve a fuller treatment than they have received up to the present in the standard books on the habi...

Letters

01 June 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--I am grateful to Mr. Ivan M. Goodbody for his comments (antea, p. 32) on my paper on the nocturnal migration of thrushes (antea, vol. xlvi, pp. 37°-374)' It is indeed possible that the coasting movement at Dun Laoghaire was unnatural. With the com...

Reviews

01 June 1954 Comments Reviews The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland. Report for 1952. Compiled by R. A. O. Hickling and R. E. Pochin and obtainable from the former at 223, Swithland Lane, Rothley Plain, Leics. 24 pp. with map. 2s. 6d. CLASSIFIED notes, given in the Wetmore order, co...

Notes

01 June 1954 Comments Notes female Scaup (Ay thy a tnarila) occurred at Cheddar reservoir, Somerset, on November 26th, 1952. The party had suddenly surfaced not more than twenty yards from the observer, and apparently becoming alarmed they quickly swam away, beginning as they did so...

Further notes on the birds of Bardsey Island

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper SINCE the appearance of my earlier paper (antea, vol. xlvi, pp. 131137) additional notes have been received from several q u a r t e r s . Sir Geoffrey H a w o r t h w a s on the island on June 22nd and 23rd, 1932; Charles Oldham and Bertram Lloyd were t...

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On Incubation

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

On the Breeding-Season and Clutch of the Steganopodes. (Cormorant, Shag, and Gannet.)

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Further notes on the birds of Bardsey Island

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